Improvement in smoking-tubes



back for the spring so bear against.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ABEL BREAR, OF SAUGATUOK, OONNEOTIGUT.

IM PROVEMENT IN SMKING-.TUBE&

Specification formihgpart of Letters Patent N0. 136,695, dated March 11,18 73.

T0 all whom zt mag concewz:

Be it known that I, ABEL BREAR, of Saugentuck, in the county ofFairfield and Staate of Conneoticuo, have invented an Improved Smoking-Tube, of whioh the following is a speoifica-tion:

[bis invention relates 1:0 tubes for si'noking out tobaceo, whereby itis designed to simu- 1ate the appearanoe of a eigar. These as heretoforemade have been defecive, mainly owing 130 the loosening of the jointbetween the tube and itsmouth-pieoe after use for a short time, and alsoon acconnt of the liab ility of the partioles of tobaceo to be drawninto the mouth-piece so as to stop it up. The object 0f this inventionis to obviate these defects; und. t0 tl1is end it consists in thecorn1oination, with the tnbe 811d. its mouh-pieoe, of an elastioconnecting piece a-nd a taper p rforatedstem inserted thereinto so as toprojeet within the tnbe, whereby the tobaoco is absolutely preventedfron1 entering the month-pieee ab all, and whenever the joint beconnesloose the taper stem may be pushed. further' into the aforesaidoonnecting-piece to expand ib and tighten the joint.

In the. aooompanying dmwin g, Figure 1 is a side view of thesmokingtube, and Fig.2 is a longitudinal seetion of the same.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding arts in bothfignres.

A is a tnbe of thin metal, Whioh is open a1;

both ends, bnt at the outer its is slightly nontracted, o1, in ot-herwords, has its edge turned inward, as shown in Fig. 2. A tobaeco-coloredwrapper is wound around the tube to give it the sembiance of a oigar.There is within this tube a follower, B, attaohed to a spiral spring, O,also oontained in the tobe. A month-piece, D, fitted to the inner end 0fthe tube, for1ns a This mouth-pieee is made to resennble a oigar-holder,and is furnished a-t the forward end with a.

eonneoting-pieee, G, of oork, India rubber, or

into this conneoting-piece from theouter end a perforated hollow stem,S, which projeets into the tobe A and. constituteS a guide for thespring G, and also prevents any tobaceo whioh may be drawn past theplunger frorn being suoked into the mout-h-piece, the smoke whioh isdrawn through it passing in through the perforations. By this means themouthpiece is kept fron1 clogging up and the smoking of the device isfaoilitated. This ste1n S is taper, and may be pushed fort-her into theeonneeting-pieoe to expand its wheneverthe joint abont; the tube becomes1oose.

'lo fill oho tube, oho mouth-piece is removed and a charge of tobaoco isintroduced from the inner end. of the tube, while the finger is held onthe outer end. 'lhe follower and spring are now inserted and tl1emouth-piece is applied.

'lhe tobaceo is lighted, a-nd as fast es it is consumed the spring, byits resiiienee, forces the eharge forwaprd so ehe burning tobaceo willalways be at the end of the tube and the semblanoe of a oigar Will bemaintained all the while.

Gut; 01 granulated tobaeco of any kind rnay be used in this tube, and itwill not be foreed. 0nt, owing to the eontraction of the end of thetube, whioh, upon any tendeney to n1ove forward, compresses or crowdsits parbioles together, and so prevents their ejection; and,

moreover, 2my partieies of tobaooo whieh aredrawn past the plunger Willbe prev(anted from entering the month-piece and stopping it np by reasonof the smailness of Ehe perforations in the stem. The smoke, however, isallowed to pass freely through the mouthpieee withou t any obstructiomOlm'm.

The eombination, with the tube A and its mouth-pieee D, of the eiastiotaper conneetingpieee G and perforated stem S, substantially as and forthe purpose sei: forth. A. BREAR.

Witnesses:

FREI). HAYNES, FRED. FINOK, J r.

